.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Hoare Lea has completed work on its first photovoltaic solar farm project. The £1.7 million farm located in Somerton, Somerset comprises 3,320 solar panels over 2.5 acres and can generate 700kW of electricity. Hoare Lea carried out the overall MEP for the project including strategic design, site layout design, plant block design and planning guidance. The team also liaised with the Distribution Network Operator (DNO) and obtained a connection offer and prepared of planning documentation.
Solar farms are a simple and proven technology providing a source of safe, locally-produced renewable energy for many years after construction. Solar farms produce no carbon emissions and provide electricity for use in homes, electric vehicles, and industry that would otherwise have to come from conventional sources.
The land used for a solar farm creates places for nature and wildlife as the land around the panels is grass land and hedging can be provided around fences. These environments provide better habitats than intensively farmed land.
The Manor Farm project was fast tracked to enable the project to benefit from the Feed in Tariff (which finished on 1 August 2011). The project started on 4 May 2011 and was completed and producing 700kW of electricity a speedy 63 days later!
The developer (Solar Power Generation Limited) has another three larger (5,000kW) sites which will be developed by extending the Feed in Tariff on two sites or by using Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) over the next 12 months. Hoare Lea has assisted with the strategic design of these sites, including the 33kV connection arrangements from two different DNOs.
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